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This is more a coordination/incentive/game theory problem than a cost one. If all the companies that use open source libraries contributed resources to pooled a
by the8472 5y ago
This is more a coordination/incentive/game theory problem than a cost one. If all the companies that use open source libraries contributed resources to pooled audits then individually they'd have to pay far less than each reviewing dependencies on their own.
Maybe that could be incentivized by penalizing data breaches caused by negligence and using non-audited code = negligence. But I suspect this would just result in people running some random static analysis tool and calling it a day rather than doing for proper code reviews.
- scns 5y agoPenalizing does not work, period. Religion tried with scare tactics for thousands of years. Sharing costs for auditing open source libraries depended on would need a platform to share the load, something like a Patreon for businesses.